A Nova Scotia man has been reunited with the wallet he lost 42 years ago.

Freeman Hall had just finished hanging lights for a CBC show taped in Dartmouth's Prince Andrew High School's auditorium in 1971 when he noticed his wallet was gone.

"We were going out for lunch and I went to grab my wallet and I didn't have it. I said 'Oh, it's up there, way back in the corner.' I went to look for it for a couple times and never found it," Hall toldCBC News.

Last week, construction foreman Neil Northrop found the wallet exactly where Hall lost it: in the school's ceiling.